ID Cards for Illegal Immigrants Considered by L.A. City Hall

Shouldn't the undocumented just, you know, stay undocumented -- in the dark, underpaid and a permanent part of the underclass?

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Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says no. He wants city library "universal city services cards" to double as official IDs for those horrible folks who take care of our children, wash our cars and put salad in our bowls:

The idea to revamp library cards, to make them into something more high-tech with the possibility of debit services for those who have a hard time getting bank accounts, originally came from Councilman Richard Alarcon.

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Dennis Romero is an L.A. Weekly staff writer. He formerly worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Los Angeles Times, where he participated in Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the L.A. riots. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone online, the Guardian and, as a young stringer, the New York Times.